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Six Ways to Befriend Future Tech Billionaires

Harvard Business Review

billion, is one more in a line of twenty-somethings and even pre-twenty-somethings whose technology innovations have made them a fortune. New business incubators are becoming increasingly common in the U.S. The social mission/business mission combination is powerful, as I showed in my book SuperCorp.

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When Big Companies Support Start-ups, Both Make More Money

Harvard Business Review

In the technology world, we’ve seen the tremendous impact that eBay has made in helping small e-commerce businesses get off the ground. Many of them started off selling merchandise from their apartments or homes, and some evolved to become power sellers. Sellers making $3,000 a month could be coached to get to $15,000 a month.

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How the U.S. Can Rebuild Its Capacity to Innovate

Harvard Business Review

federal research investments enabled the invention of the magnetic storage drive, lithium-ion batteries, and liquid crystal display technologies that paved the way for the next generation of consumer electronics in the 1980s and 1990s, the U.S. annual trade deficit in advanced technology products alone stands around $100 billion.